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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostWell spotted, ts.
Just ordered here too; not many duplications (only those conducted by Solti, and the Norman/Masur songs).
Here's hoping we're all successful in getting our orders honoured.
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostI've just ordered one to be delivered to my address in France, and have just received an e-mail confirming purchase. Thank you very much TS, let's hope we all succeed - not had such a bargain since The Real Chopin set!
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostThing is, if they do arrive I'll have to listen to them all!
Originally posted by cloughie View PostSnap, did you buy the Solti box when it was at a good price a year or two back?
All these things one imagines one can do in retirement, eh?
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post. . . All these things one imagines one can do in retirement, eh?My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
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I've got a few duplicates in that set: all the Soltis, the Keilberth Arabella and the Dorati Helene (the only commercial recording, I think) and the Sawallisch Intermezzo (ditto?) but went for it, anyway, because certain other items are only available in the box and....it was too good a bargain to resist!
Strauss' decline as an operatic composer began after Die Frau Ohne Schatten (his greatest operatic work, imo) but he got his mojo back temporarily with Arabella and the late works do include some interesting stuff amongst all the stodge.
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Originally posted by Conchis View Postsome interesting stuff amongst all the stodge.
Funnily enough I had just been looking at getting the Solti Elektra which I don't have as a recording and last listened to nearly 50 years ago on LPs borrowed from Croydon Library when I was student.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostGood title for my autobiography ...
Funnily enough I had just been looking at getting the Solti Elektra which I don't have as a recording and last listened to nearly 50 years ago on LPs borrowed from Croydon Library when I was student.
This was John Culshaw's penultimate production for Decca and it's the one where some people think he went over the top: Klytemnestra's 'treated' cackling, the wailing from Chrystothemis that begins the second disc and with Solti sounding like he'd arrived at the sessions having downed fifteen espressos. But I love it - all of it - truly one of my desert island recordings! :)
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